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Pending A Decision, X-47B UAV To Be Kept In Flying Condition, Not In Museum

July 10 2015

USA

At least for the present, the U.S. Navy will not to send its X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle demonstrators to an aviation museum, reports National Defense magazine.

The air vehicles will be kept in flying condition until high-level decisions are made on how to proceed, officials said.

"The Navy is examining a range of potential follow-on activities involving the X-47B air vehicles," Navy Capt. Beau Duarte, the program manager for unmanned carrier aviation, said in a statement. ...

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